fuuuuuuuuuuck the local radio station is at it again. I wish I had saved my call-in for this instead of the interview dress code question.
they're debating the CA law that schools don't have to disclose a student's identity to their parents and other states mandating that they do. first guy they have on starts in on "if you look like a male I'm calling you a male & hdu FoRcE yOuR BeLiEfS oN mE" and kids identifying as cats & shit (tell me you watch Fox News...)
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and the old cliche of "I respect the LGBT community BUT I'm not gonna respect your gender identity" and I'M SO FUCKING TIRED Y'ALL. the DJ is like "I want to know EVERYTHING my kid is doing at school & I don't see how the mandatory disclosure law hurts anybody," YOU LITERALLY JUST TALKED TO A GUY WHO WOULD NOT SUPPORT HIS KID BEING GENDER NON-CONFORMING. What, you think if school counselors mediate that he's magically going to accept his kid & not "beat the queer" out of them at home?
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this DJ then brings up the whole "singular they/them" and co-host is saying "it goes against everything we were taught grammatically" SINGULAR THEY/THEM HAS EXISTED FOR FUCKING CENTURIES, YOU LITERALLY USED IT 5 SECONDS AGO TALKING ABOUT A HYPOTHETICAL STUDENT OF UNDETERMINED GENDER.
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“Respect” only if they do as they are told, he means. That’s not respect, that’s an attempt at intimidation. Otherwise they will attempt to have the kids removed from the parents because the child is “being harmed” by the child expressing their identity.
This is fucked up.
and the nerve of right-wingers to talk about "parents' rights to raise their kids however" when that first caller said if a kid IS trans and the parents ARE supportive, HE STILL WON'T RESPECT THAT KID'S IDENTITY. HE STILL WON'T RESPECT THAT PARENT'S DECISION TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILD.
God bless the poor LGBT kid who called in at the end trying to explain the safety issue and ultimately being told "we have to prioritize parents' rights to raise their kids however they want." fucking bigots.
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